AXD PROFITS IN RETAILING MEAT 
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groups of annual sales volumes and percentages of return exclusive 
of proprietor salary. 
A study of the resulting arrangement brought out the fact that. 
in so far as the data of this survey were applicable, little relation 
existed between rate of profit and size of business. 
Table 9. — Individual retail meat markets- arranged according to the number 
of stores occurring in varying groups of annual sales volumes and percentages 
of return to proprietors, exclusive of salaries, 1923 
Percentage groups 
Annual sales 
volumes 
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3 
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2 23 
2 19 
$40,001-^50,000 
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$60,001-370,000 
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8130.001-3140.000 . 
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8160,001-8170,000 
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S190,001-8200,000 
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a 
Total number 
of stores for 
each group.. 
3 1 2 6 
6 
10 
10 
19 
10 
9 13 
13 
7 
5 7 
2 
2 j 4 
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1 Percentage figures preceded by a minus (— ) sign indicate extent of the failure of the businesses to make 
return to proprietors above estimated salaries. 
Twenty-three stores were the largest number found in any one 
size group when the stores were grouped according to $10,000 inter- 
vals, This group contained the stores whose volumes of sales were 
between 830.001 and $10,000. In this sales group, there were 5 loss 
stores. The proprietor of 1 incurred a loss of over 5 per cent. 1 a 
loss between 2.99 and 2 per cent. 2 between 1.99 and 1 per cent, and 
1 between 0.99 and 0.01 per cent, 
In the 18 profit stores in this sales-volume group, one proprietor 
made a profit between and 0.99 per cent. 5 between 1 and 1.99 per 
cent, 1 between 2 and 2,99 per cent, 1 between 3 per cent and 3.99 
per cent. 2 between 4 and 4.99 per cent, 3 between 5 and 5.99 per 
cent, 1 between 6 and 6.99 per cent, 1 between 7 and T.99 per cent, 
1 between 8 and 8.99 per cent and 2 made a profit of 11 per cent or 
more. The fact that no relation was apparent between rate of 
profit and volume of net sales was of particular significance when 
the data were analyzed on a basis of profit. 
For the analysis presented in Table 10. the stores comprising each 
of the three classes were arranged in descending order, from the 
